If anyone is interested I made an sfs of go-openoffice 3.1.1. The hype is that it is faster starting up (it is fast in my experience), lighter weight, more compatible with microsoft office documents, and with a less cluttered interface. There is also controversy: that it is a way for microsoft through Novell to gain leverage in the open source software community (specifically, by using the language "mono" to write scripts or addons). On the third hand, Sun has not been notoriously successful in bringing openoffice along on its own or incorporating code from the community; specifically, all code in Sun OpenOffice must be copyright by Sun. Novell, however, has a more open policy. How many hands are we on now? About the last thing I know is the go version is the one that Ubuntu includes.

This is No frills. I made it for myself so there are no menu entries or other conveniences. The desktop files for each program are in /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg, and you can drag them to the desktop for convenience. To use it, download it and place it in /mnt/home, then go to Menu -> System -> Bootmanager configure bootup -> Choose which extra SSF... and Add it to the Right Side. Then, next boot, it should be there in /opt so you can click the desktop files to run the programs. I made it from the version distributed at http://www.go-oo.org/. I used the script available there to download the rpm files and then used a loop with unrpm to unpack them all, then used mksquashfs to make the sfs. I'll be testing but I would appreciate it if anyone who tried it could let me know if there was a problem. Thank you.Last edited by playdayz on Sat 31 Oct 2009, 15:23; edited 2 times in total

Yes, Raffy, I meant to mention that; I do recall it saying sfs4 when it made the file. actually I do not know how to tell mksquashfs to make an sfs3 or I would have--it would seem that would be better for wider use. I have the folder prepared so it would be easy to make an sfs3 with just a little advice.

Hello playdayz I checked go-openoffice in my slow computer as we had talk about.

My opinion is that it is faster than open-office but not any huge difference, just a bit but obvious. It is also very usable as based on open office of course. For example all the greek documents I loaded was rendering perfect, didn't even had to change the fonts to dejavu as it was default, I could also write in greek with accents out of the box when in softmaker I couldn't.

From the other hand softmaker is still by far faster and less resource demanding even from go-openoffice. Consider that when I loaded the huge .xls file I had referenced to in go-openoffice it used 205Mbytes of ram, a big amount.

I can't really found the difference between the normal open-office and go-openoffice except that it is repackaged from Novell (grrrr M$). I checked what's in the package and saw java and python, nightmare it was like walking in the valley of bloatware and slow languages Still it was functioning better than plane open-office.

For the time being this is the suite I'm gonna keep using and thank you very much that you packaged it. Even that the search for my holy-grail office suite continues.

Has anybody used Ibm lotus symphony? I found it yesterday and I'm thinking to check it out. Does it worth it? Haven't used lotus since the middle of '90s. The only think that I saw in the website and l don't like it is "limitations of switching between languages: You can switch from English to any other supported language. But you can only switch from one non-English language to another within the same group" and in my case greek and spanish are in different groups.

About the proprietary comment I got it as the most important because is something that I'm looking for. Even that in case where the open solution is worthless I'm willing to use the proprietary one.

Re-Edit: I found this in the web-site "Lotus Symphony leverages OpenOffice.org code with the Eclipse framework, so they are different in User Interface, Development Toolkit, mechanism of Plug-ins etc." as also different options. So another open-office clone.

I tried the sfs3 version in 421 and it works fine, except for one strange quirk:
When opening Writer a message comes up and reports "dict-fr.oxt does not exist". When opening Writer again, it opens without this message. Installing the French dictionary does not help any.

Just wanted to say that I have used this on about 10 different installs and they all work great sfs3 and 4. Have had it loaded on 412 to dpupbeta4 and everything in between. And for some reason, I got menu items. not complaining though, I was going to add them myself. Thank you very much and I will actually be including this in my next puplet, SidPup._________________Instead of looking out Windows, I'm playing with my Puppy.

I found two sfs files from /mnt/home and their exact names are: pup-431.sfs and go-oo-3.1.1-sfs3.sfs. So, I use sfs3 in Puppy 4.31-﻿2.6.25.16. Is it dangerous?

playdayz wrote:

The desktop files for each program are in /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg, and you can drag them to the desktop for convenience.

The best way to start Gooo is to use soffice (from /opt/openoffice.org3/program/) as desktop file. This soffice file opens OpenOffice.org desktop allowing you to choose or manage everything you can ever imagine.

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It is a question of kernel: with 2.6.25.xx I remember you can use sfs version3, with kernel higher than 2.6.28.xx I remember you must use_________________replace .co.cc with .info to get access to stuff I posted in forum
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Hi Dingo,
many thanks for those sfs's !
I installed the go-0432.sfs on puppy431 frugal (...of course!)...indeed start is faster than the classic version...nice!
To get the french user interface I also loaded on the i586 repo: except the «help» archive beause it is too big

Oh man this is amazing.
The acid test was a 50MB ppt file.
Basically go office handled it using 50% less ram which on this 256MB machine made several magnitudes of difference in term of speed...indeed I saw the ram cleanup on my monitors. And as a bonus the rendering was spot on. This made the difference between embarrasing and useable...just in time for my meeting.
I guess microsoft must be giving some format clues but whatever the reason this rocks. I guess no java is included and its a no frills version but I would finish this off to make the definitive open office package for puppy.
ps it does not nag when opening either.

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